He is the brother of actor David Chiang and half-brother of actor/ director Derek Yee Tung-Shing. His son Benji Chiang and his daughter Lesley Chiang are duo in the pop group "Benji and Lesley".

Paul started his acting career at the age of three. He has appeared in Robert Wise production The Sand Pebbles (1966), acting alongside with Steve McQueen and Candice Bergen. He has continuously acting for over 60 years. He is highly respected by many actors of his generation and also regarded as one of the greatest actors in Hong Kong of all time.

Filmography of Paul Chun (52 films)

Actor

, 1h58Directed byAnn HuiOriginHong kongGenresDrama, ComedyActorsAndy Lau, Deannie Yip, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Wang Fuli, Elena Kong, Paul ChunRoles Uncle Kin(堅叔) a resident at the nursing homeRating75% Roger Leung (Andy Lau), an unmarried middle aged Hong Kong film producer lives with Chung Chun-to (Deanie Ip), a maidservant who has worked for his family for decades. Returning home after a business trip, Roger discovers To on the floor and calls for an ambulance. At the hospital, Roger discovers that To has had a stroke but rather than ask for rehabilitation, To decides she wants to retire and asks to be put in a nursing home. While looking for a nursing home Roger discovers one nearby that is owned by his friend. He installs To there and visits her in between his production jobs. While visiting To, he tells her friends and neighbours that he is her god son in order to explain their connection.

, 2h8Directed byDerek YeeOriginHong kongGenresDrama, ActionThemesFilms about magic and magiciansActorsTony Leung Chiu-wai, Sean Lau, 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Paul Chun, Vincent Kok, Alex FongRoles Liu WanyaoRating59% In the years after the Revolution in which the Qing Dynasty in China is overthrown and the Republic is established, China is broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords, who are busy fighting each other. A Butler, Liu Kunshan (Wu Gang), uses magic to scare convicts into joining the army of warlord Lei Bully (Lau Ching-wan). Lei Bully has 6 wives and also imprisons a girl, Liu Yin (Zhou Xun), and wants her to be his seventh wife willingly. A group of local revolutionaries want to kidnap Lei and bring back the republic. They team up with a magician, Chang Hsien (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), to entice Lei to a magic show and kidnap him during the show. It is revealed that Zhang and Liu Yin had been ex-lovers in the past and Zhang is an apprentice of Liu's father, a magician, Liu Wanyao. Chang discovers that his former master was imprisoned by Liu Kunshan as he had wanted to extract a magic secret from Liu Wanyao.

OriginHong kongGenresDrama, Comedy, Documentary, RomanceActorsSimon Yam, Sandra Ng, Paul Chun, Ann Hui, Joe Cheung Tung Cho, Vincent KokRoles Big Uncle - barberRating73% Eight-year-old Law Chun-yi (who goes by the nickname Big Ears) lives with his parents and his sixteen-year-old brother Desmond in a shoe shop on Wing Lee Street in late 1960s Hong Kong. Chun-yi looks up to his brother, who is a champion runner at the local high school, earns top grades, is a talented musician, and is very popular; Chun-yi's parents and teachers often scold him for not being as good as his big brother. Desmond has a girlfriend, Flora, who comes from a wealthy family, and whose family moves away to the United States to escape the "lawless" situation in Hong Kong. Desmond gradually becomes aware of the inequalities in Hong Kong society of that time, both through interactions with a cocky British policeman who extorts money from his father in exchange for letting them keep their shop (and who insists that Desmond will never "make it big" because his English isn't good enough) and through his first time seeing the inside of Flora's family's mansion. Most of this is told through Chun-yi, the film's narrator.

, 1h49Directed byDerek YeeOriginHong kongGenresDramaActorsCecilia Cheung, Sean Lau, Louis Koo, Paul Chun, Elena Kong, Lee San-SanRating72% Siu Wai (Cecilia Cheung) is a young woman, whose fiancé (Louis Koo) has been killed in an accident. She takes on her late fiancé's minibus business in order to support his young son, Lok Lok. As Siu Wai struggles in the cutthroat business, she is befriended by Dai Fai (Lau Ching Wan), another minibus driver who was at the scene of her fiancé's accident. Dai Fai takes pity on her plight and he regularly assists Siu Wai, from taking care of Lok Lok to teaching her the ropes of minibus driving. As Dai Fai becomes more heavily involved with Siu Wai and her daily obstacles, could there be something more in their platonic relationship?

, 1h54Directed byAndrew LauOriginHong kongGenresThriller, Action, CrimeThemesGangster filmsActorsEkin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Shu Qi, Mark Cheng, Danny Lee, Carlo ChinRating61% Chicken did not return for this film and Chan Ho Nam is on his own. He finds a beautiful new love interest's (Shu Qi) and has to deal with some young "Tung Sing" triad members trying to make something of themselves. Young and Dangerous 5 happens during the transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty to China. We see a transition of the "boys" becoming "men" as they develop maturity and go into more business-like dealings.

, 1h39Directed byDerek YeeOriginHong kongGenresDrama, Comedy, Comedy-dramaThemesFilms about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about pornographyActorsLeslie Cheung, Karen Mok, Shu Qi, Paul Chun, Elvis Tsui, Sean LauRoles Pui (Boss)Rating66% Viva Erotica is a sex-comedy film, though with a serious subject of how an artist has to compromise his artistic integrity to make a living. The film is about an unsuccessful film-director Kwok-Wing (Leslie Cheung) and his producer Chung (Law Kar-ying), who agrees to make Category III sex/porn movies for their financial stability. Their movie projects are financed by a gangster boss Pui (Paul Chun). Shu Qi and Karen Mok played the roles of the leading actresses in the movie. In the end, Wing finally decides not to compromise his artistic integrity by making a porn movie.

, 1h48Directed byDerek YeeGenresDrama, Action, RomanceThemesSports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road moviesActorsAndy Lau, Paul Chun, Elvis TsuiRoles PaulRating66% Joe (Andy Lau) is a youth that loves auto racing. His father Paul (Paul Chun) operates a motorbike business which often organizes motorbike teams to race in Macau and Japan and his racers would often be awarded the crown bike. However, Joe has been rumored to be the best among the racers because every crown bike is always defeated in hands of Joe on the streets. Since Joe's license has been revoked for speeding at the age of 19, he is unable to participate in an official race and can only secretly race in the streets to fulfill his desire of racing on the roads. Joe's father is very irritated about this and views his son as an outlaw biker so he prohibits his racers to race with Joe which sours their father and son relationship. Joe owns an auto repair shop with his friend Jimmy (Chin Ka-lok). Joe's girlfriend Annie (Gigi Leung) is very gentle and kind but she always worries about her boyfriend racing.

, 1h50Directed byRingo LamOriginHong kongGenresThriller, Action, Martial artsThemesSports films, Martial arts filmsActorsAndy Lau, Victor Wong, Rosamund Kwan Chi Lam, Ron Yuan, Paul Chun, David ChiangRoles Ray LuiRating60% In Cambodia 1975, the eight-year-old Wai Lok-yan witnessed the tragedy of his parents being killed by Ray Lui (Paul Chun) while hiding in the closet with his younger sister. Back then, Yan's father Wah (Phillip Ko), Ray and Seung (David Chiang) were war comrades working for the CIA in Cambodia. Later Ray gone rogue and works for the Khmer Rouge and in order to take the information gathered by Wah, he killed Yan's parents, while Yan's younger sister also dies in a fire. After this incident, Seung takes the orphaned Yan to Thailand, where he became a Thai Air Force Pilot.

, 1h43Directed byGordon Chan, Yuen Woo-pingOriginHong kongGenresMartial arts, Kung fu, Action, Martial artsThemesSeafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Kung fu filmsActorsJet Li, Chin Siu-ho (錢小豪), Shinobu Nakayama, Billy Chow, Paul Chun, Yuen Cheung-YanRoles Uncle NohRating75% Chen Zhen (Jet Li) is attending class in Kyoto University when some Japanese karate students from the Black Dragon Clan burst in and attempt to force him out because he is Chinese. Mitsuko Yamada (Shinobu Nakayama), one of Chen's female classmates who has a crush on him, along with Chen's professor and other students, speak up for him. The thugs turn violent but Chen easily defeats them using a variety of controlled Chin Na techniques. The Japanese thugs' sensei, Funakochi Fumio (Yasuaki Kurata), who is also Mitsuko's uncle, arrives to take control of the situation and apologizes for his students' behavior. Fumio is impressed by Chen's skill and converses with him, and Chen learns that his master Huo Yuanjia has died after losing in a match against a Japanese martial artist. Chen is distraught after hearing the bad news and he leaves for Shanghai immediately.

, 1h28Directed byJohnnie ToOriginHong kongGenresScience fiction, Fantasy, ActionThemesSuperhero filmsActorsMichelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Paul Chun, Jamie DonnellyRoles Chief of PoliceRating65% An invisible woman is kidnapping newborn babies who are destined to be emperors and delivering them to the mysterious subterranean supernatural Evil Master. The police are powerless, and the city must be saved by three very different women who share a terrible past. Anita Mui plays the mild-mannered wife of a police inspector who's also the mask-wearing, sword-slinging and knife-throwing crime fighter, Wonder Woman. Maggie Cheung plays the shotgun-toting, hard-boiled bounty hunter, Thief Catcher. Michelle Yeoh is Invisible Girl, the troubled but determined strong right arm of the Evil Master.

, 1h45Directed byDerek YeeOriginHong kongGenresDrama, Romantic comedy, RomanceActorsAnita Yuen, Sean Lau, Carina Lau, Paul Chun, Sylvia Chang, Peter Ho-sun ChanRating77% Min (Anita Yuen), who is part of a Cantonese street opera troupe and a part-time cover artiste, meets Kit (Lau Ching-Wan), a struggling jazz musician who has just broken up with his celebrity singer girlfriend (Carina Lau). Through her bubbly personality, she affects Kit for the better. However, just as their relationship begins to stabilize and win acceptance from Min's family, which includes a strict mother and a doting, saxophone-playing uncle, Min is re-diagnosed with bone cancer, which she had once suffered as a young child.